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Código: GA 27

Revisión: 05

Fecha: 06/03/19

TRIMESTRE: Tercero CURSO: Décimo ESTUDIANTE:

ASIGNATURA: Inglés DOCENTE: Claudia Diaz

1. Read the Following text and answer the questions.

Canada - the biggest country in the New World

Imagine yourself sitting in a café one day in your home town, when on the next table you hear
some people speaking English with a strong North American accent. Being a friendly person,
you lean over and say, "Hi! Are you American?"
"No," comes the immediate answer. "Canadian!"
Calling a English-speaking Canadian an American can be as bad as telling a Scotsman that
he's English or a Swiss person he's German. In spite of a common language, there are
differences in culture and national feeling. "No," many Canadians will tell you with insistence,
"We're not Americans! We're Canadians."

In the same way as Quebecers are determined to keep their identity, Canadians from the
other provinces are determined to keep Canada's identity. Although the Canadian way of life
is more and more like the American way of life, lots of details are different, and many
Canadians, particularly Quebecers, are worried about the survival of their own differences.
Canadians use metres and kilometres and measure temperatures in Celsius; Americans use
feet and miles, and measure temperature in Fahrenheit. The USA has states, Canada has
provinces.
Yet about 80% of Canadians live within 150 km. of the U.S. border, and this has had a bad
effect on the Canadian economy. Like most European countries, Canada has a national
health service, and a good social security system; but good welfare services have to be paid
for by high taxes, so the cost of living in Canada is high. Because of this, hundreds of
thousands of Canadians often get in their cars and drive over to the USA to go shopping. This
is one cause of economic problems in Canada. Over half of Canada's imports come from the
United States, and Canada has a trade deficit with the USA.
But the American influence is not just a question of shopping. Lots of Canadians drive
American cars, and cars are almost as important in Canada as they are in the USA. There is
television too. While Quebecers tend to watch their own French-language TV stations,

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English-speaking Canadians have a choice between local English-speaking channels,

national programmes from CBC, and dozens of American channels brought to them by cable
or satellite. Unless they specifically want to watch local stations, they're just as likely to tune
in to one of the big American channels as they are to a Canadian channel.
Perhaps it is not surprising if some Canadians are afraid that their country will soon be just
like another part of the USA. If, one day, Quebec becomes independent, many Canadians
fear that the rest of Canada could break up. Perhaps that's an exaggeration; many Canadians
feel it is a real risk.

If there is one thing that unites almost the whole population of Canada, it is the experience of
winter.
While in most parts of Europe, people never know what the winter weather will be like from
one week to the next, Canadians know what winter means. When the last leaves fall off the
trees in Autumn, Canadians know that the winter is coming, and that it will be cold; or if it is
not cold, it will be very cold! When the Arctic air blows south in the winter months, Canadians
know that the temperature will fall to -20° or lower, perhaps down to -40°; but because they
know that it is going to happen, Canadians are ready for it! That, as they say, is half the battle
of survival!
In Edmonton, the biggest city in the province of Alberta, the first winter snows can come in
October. When this happens, Edmontonians complain that it is a bit early, but then just get on
with normal life.
For most of the winter, which usually lasts from November to April, daytime temperatures in
the city rarely rise above freezing; from time to time, Arctic winds howl down from the north,
and for several days temperatures in the city may not rise above -20° (and may drop below -
40°).
But in a city where people are used to cold winters, life carries on as usual. Canadians have
to know how to cope with the cold; those who can't have just two options, to emigrate or to go
and live beyond the Rocky Mountains, beside the Pacific Ocean, in "B.C." – British Columbia!
The easiest way to keep away from the cold of a Canadian winter is to stay indoors as much
as possible! This does not mean that you have to stay at home, however! Many people keep
their cars in heated basement garages which they can reach without going outside. Cars are
often kept warm in winter, with electric heaters which are plugged into power points.
Some shopping centres have underground or indoor parking lots: and in the city centre, it is
often possible to walk from one building to another, underground or above ground, without
ever having to go out in the cold. The biggest shopping centre in town has hundreds of shops,
cinemas, an ice rink, a sports centre and an amusement park all under one roof! The "West

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Edmonton Mall" is like an indoor city — and in the heart of winter, it is a good place to go
shopping.
Outside, people make the most of the snow, for leisure and recreation. Skiing, skating and
snow-shoeing are popular activities that can be practised in the city's parks; many parks also
have areas which are flooded in winter, to provide natural icerinks, which are lit up in the
evenings. Everyone tries to enjoy the snow as much as possible!
Perhaps this is easier than it is in most parts of Europe; Canadian snow tends to be dry and
powdery. For most of the winter, for example, you can't make it into snowballs, it's too cold.
There is no point in putting salt on the roads, either, as at -10° and below, the snow just will
not melt, even with salt! The only way to clear the roads is to use snow-ploughs or snow-
blowers.

2. Search in the text all the phrasal verbs and phrases that could be similar as an idiom or
if you can find an idiom also highlight. Use different colors: one color for the phrasal
verbs, the second color for the phrases/idioms and make a list.

3. Make a chart where you can write likes and dislikes taken from the passage. Here is an
example: add items as much as you need.
What I like about Canada…. What I dislike about Canada…

● Sightseeings… ● Cold/winter…
 4. Write a summary (20-lines) about the text, use perfect tenses in your writing including
phrasal verbs and idioms, please highlight those words/phrases.

5. Create a leaflet, inviting people to visit Canada, including information from the text.

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6. Search information about “inventions” useful for humankind, use zero and first
conditional, to talk about them.

7. Search information related to “inventions” that at the end never worked, give reasons
why they didn’t work and give possible solutions, use conditionals (zero, first, second,
third)

8. Create 1 “invention” explaining its function.

My invention is a faucet that can filter water. This filter will have a grid that will be activated
by means of a small pulley, whose function is to filter impurities from the water to ensure
that only drinking water comes out of the tap.

9. Design a leaflet where you can show your product.

10. According to the idioms vocabulary, write a personal situation where you can use 5
different idioms in the text.
 One day I was at a friend's party, I really didn't feel too good but my mother told me "the
ball is in your court" so I could decide if I should stay or go home to rest. I really felt under
the weather, I clearly felt sat on the fence because I didn't want to be rude to my friend but
I also didn't want to stay in a place where I didn't want to be. I told him that I was there by
the skin of your teeth, and that I really wanted to go home to rest and recover even though
I didn't because it didn't hurt his feelings.He understood the situation and asked me to go
rest, so we could go out and do something else. I gratefully told him that I was going to hit
the sack immediately.

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